A year ago, when Tom Crouse made the trip to compete at the National Western Stock Show Rodeo, a lot of rodeo fans hadn’t heard his name.               That changed here when ...

Perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but if so, it’s a pretty good one. Unrivaled tie-down roper Cody Ohl joins saddle bronc king Billy Etbauer in the 2023 class of Vegas NFR Icons. The coincidence: ...

Over the past several months, Shad Mayfield’s perspective has changed. To be fair, he already admired the dominance of Trevor Brazile. From 2002-2018, Brazile won the Professional Rodeo Cowboys ...

Eight-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier Marty Yates, pictured here in an earlier competition, won the tie-down roping at the 79th ABC Pro Rodeo in Levelland. Yates made a run of 7.7 seconds during ...

After navigating some difficulties this season, the up-and-coming tie-down roper got a breakthrough result to build some momentum heading into the Prairie Circuit Finals. Denton Oestmann spent the ...

Four rounds of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo have been completed at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nev. Riley Webb has won three of them and finished second in the other. Tie-down ...

CHEYENNE – John Douch grew up in a rodeo family and has been roping and riding as long as he can remember. He also happened to grow up near one of the best ropers in Professional Rodeo Cowboys ...

CHEYENNE – Competing in professional rodeo seemed too good to be true and something that only existed in the dreams of tie-down roper Marcos Costa. The native of Paraná, Brazil, left home at age 14 to ...

BLACKFOOT – One of the oldest events if not the oldest event in rodeo is calf roping. Now called tie down roping, except by the true old-timers in the game, calf roping started on the ranches, when a ...

CHEYENNE — Some of the country’s top tie-down ropers and steer wrestlers are boycotting this year’s Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo amid changes they say will result in less financial gain and more wear ...